Living Clean in a Dirty World

The news hit you. The President of the Republic will be using your car when he visits your remote little town next week.
And as if that's not enough, the Honorable Head of State will spend the night in your house.

What do you think you will be doing before that day?
Clean the car! Clean the house! Clean it, clean it again, then after that, clean it some more!

No one with body odor will be allowed in the car.
No dirty shoes inside.

The room... oh, it has to be repainted. The dining room, the living room... imagine who will dine and sleep here, no less than the highest official of the Country! Is this not the most important person among tens of millions?

DO YOU NOT KNOW...?
Similarly, if we understand who Christ Jesus is... if we have a revelation of His honor, majesty and His matchless worth... and that our bodies are His dwelling/Temple.... we could never allow uncleanness in our hearts and minds.

God Wants You Happy?

"Everybody wants to be happy! God wants you to be happy!" preached Pastor Nice Guy.

I say; God doesn't want you happy. He wants you dead!

He wants you dead to self so He can live through you!

When you are dead to self, He can be joyful through you.
Supernatural joy can well up within like a river flowing through you.

When you are dead to self, He can love through you.

It's not you trying your best to love... it's Him, the Lover of our souls loving through you!

Galatians 2:20
"I am crucified with Christ and I no longer live..."
(Thank you God!!! What freedom!)
"...but Christ lives in me."
(I can only shout Halleluyahhh!)

Why do you not lay down your burden?

Below is an excerpt from a really old book (first published 1870).
To spice up the story, I did some Corel Photo Painting, putting together pictures of a carabao and some farmers.
I'm just hoping to cast a clearer picture of what it means to live life in Christ.
Enjoy!

Most Christians are like a man toiling along the road, bending under a heavy burden, when a wagon overtook him, and the driver kindly offered to help him on his journey.

He joyfully accepted the offer, but when seated in the wagon, continued to bend beneath his burden, which he still kept on his shoulders.

"Why do you not lay down your burden?" asked the kind hearted driver.

"Oh!" replied the man, "I feel that it is almost too much to ask you to carry me, and I could not think of letting you carry my burden too".

And so christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burdens, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.

From the book by Hannah Whitall Smith "The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life" (first published 1870)

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